Laravel Eloquent ORM Transactions

Question

The Eloquent ORM is quite nice, though I\'m wondering if there is an easy way to setup MySQL transactions using innoDB in the same fashion as PDO, or if I would have to exte

Answer 1

If you don't like anonymous functions:

try {
    DB::connection()->pdo->beginTransaction();
    // database queries here
    DB::connection()->pdo->commit();
} catch (\PDOException $e) {
    // Woopsy
    DB::connection()->pdo->rollBack();
}

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Update: For laravel 4, the pdo object isn't public anymore so:

try {
    DB::beginTransaction();
    // database queries here
    DB::commit();
} catch (\PDOException $e) {
    // Woopsy
    DB::rollBack();
}